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Murderous Pace. Last week. Spain's Careaga and his team worked hard. Their shirts turned purple with sweat and they kept the Frenchmen on the hop. Urruty, however, was too good. "Yo!" he would yell to warn a teammate that the ball was coming his way: "Arriba!" Careaga would counter...
...Leavings. By mid-August, the only Frenchmen left in Paris are those frankly catering to the tourists. Hotspots on the Place Pigalle perform with sweaty, nude energy. The Casino de Paris turns away customers every evening, and at Maxim's the maitre d'hôtel, substituting for Albert (who has gone to Deauville), is hard put to find a latecomer a seat ("And will monsieur have champagne...
Colonialism Is Dead. The cause of the rouble is the crusade by Maroc-Presse or Moroccan autonomy. For two troubled years it has been telling fellow Frenchmen that colonialism is dead, that they must begin native self-government. To diehard French colonialists such an appeal amounts to treason, the betrayal of France to Moroccan nationalists...
Leaflets & Buses. Next day, as the rioting rolled on, anonymous leaflets flooded the city urging Frenchmen to take up arms in protest against the Café Gonin bombing and Grandval's "soft" policy. In groups of two and three hundred, European vigilantes stormed through the city, pillaging and burning native shops, overturning buses. Most vengeful were the Pied Noir (Black Foot), half-breeds of mixed Italian, Spanish and Moroccan blood and Morocco's equivalent of the South's "poor white," who hate the native Moroccans with a fury based on economic insecurity. In the heart...
...Frenchmen celebrated Bastille Day everywhere but on the fairways of La Boulie golf course near suburban Versailles. There Byron Nelson, 43, the tall, greying Texan who won the U.S. Open championship back in 1939, showed his old touch on the greens and his old straight skill off the tee, to take the French Open championship with a 17-under-par 271. Last American to take the title: Walter Hagen...